By Tony Bates, on May 12th, 2010
I try not to use this site to promote particular products or services, but occasionally something that is likely to be of genuine interest to readers comes up – hence my previous posting on the Canadian launch of the iPad.
In a similar vein, the development of the Kuali consortium and its goal of [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 31st, 2010
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)
It’s now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC, and my motto has always been ‘Never look back.’ However, two things came together to bring me back to UBC last week with a ‘formal’ [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 6th, 2009
Parry, M. (2009) Software giants try boutique approach to tempt colleges Chronicle of Higher Education, November 29
An article on Sungard’s change of strategy regarding its Banner administrative software, providing more flexibility in its services. Not mentioned is whether this is the first response of commercial providers to the Kuali Project‘s move towards open [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 20th, 2009
Parry, M. (2009) Business Software, Built by Colleges for Colleges, Challenges Commercial Giants Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15
An article on the latest open source administrative software developed by the Kuali consortium. This is an important development, offering the potential for large savings on administrative software, but still likely to be used by [...]
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